Pharmaceutical Market and Healthcare Services in Poland and Eastern Europe

NFZ: spending on drug reimbursement exceeds PLN 2bn in January-March

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

In the first quarter of the year expenditures on drug reimbursement reached PLN 2.02bn (€482m), according to data published by the National Health Fund (NFZ). The figure represents ...

Arx Equity Partners to complete PE investment in healthcare sector in 2012

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Arx Equity Partners, which owns Lexummedica, a network of ophthalmic clinics in Poland and the Czech Republic, has not managed to complete a private equity (PE) investment in the ...

Hungary to abolish solidarity fee paid by pharmacies?

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The “solidarity fee” paid by pharmacies in Hungary might be abolished, according to a recent draft bill published by the government modifying certain tax-related acts. Currently, ...

Sales at Mediq down by 12% in Q1

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Mediq reported a 12% year-on-year decline in net sales at its Polish unit in the first quarter of 2012, to €120.9m, due to the hoarding effect in December 2011 and a depreciation ...

Sales at BioMaxima up by 2.2% in January-April

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

BioMaxima, the listed supplier of in vitro diagnostics products, maintained a strong rate of growth in export sales and in new delivery contracts in April, while overall year-to-date ...

Sopharma’s Polish sales recover to nearly €3m in Q1

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Sopharma reported a more than ten-fold increase in Polish sales in the first quarter of the year, to €2.96m from €0.23m a year earlier, according to the group’s ...

Retail prices of 1,000 medicines to fall under new reimbursement list

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The new version of the list of reimbursed medicines that took effect on 1 May reduces patient co-payment for 439 medicines and increases it for 667 items, by up to PLN 189.74 (€45.5) ...

Blirt disappointed with Q1 results

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Sales and profits at BioLab Innovative Research Technologies (Blirt), a NewConnect-listed provider of R&D services for pharma and biotech companies, came in below expectations in ...

Kalman Szell Plan 2.0. envisages further changes in Hungarian reimbursement system

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The second version of the Kalman Szell Plan structural reform programme for 2013, announced by the Hungarian government on 23 April 2012, envisages the introduction of the “Spanish-model” ...

Internetowy Dom Zdrowia expects solid 2012 results

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Internetowy Dom Zdrowia (IDZ, formerly Domzdrowia.pl) will in 2012 continue its move away from the image of an online pharmacy towards that of a comprehensive online retailer of ...

Bioton expects benefits from Watson-Actavis merger

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The recently-announced takeover of Actavis by Watson Pharmaceuticals creates a huge opportunity for Bioton to accelerate export sales of its insulin products particularly on the ...

BioMaxima reports 47% sales increase in Q1

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Sales at BioMaxima, the listed supplier of in vitro diagnostics products, jumped by 46.5% year-on-year in the three months to March and amounted to nearly PLN 2.7bn (€0.64m), ...

Survey: pharma companies will not move clinical centres to Poland

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

According to a survey conducted by PMR Research for Pharma Poland News, Poland is not a place where pharmaceutical companies will move their clinical trial centres from other locations, ...

Gedeon Richter opens new biotechnology plant in Debrecen

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The new biotechnology manufacturing plant of Gedeon Richter was opened on 19 April 2012. The investment cost about HUF 17bn (€50m) of which HUF 1.4bn (€4.6m) was provided ...

Medana to complete part of investment programme in 2012

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

As a result of an investment programme carried out by Medana Pharma, a division of the Polpharma group, at its facility in Sieradz (in the Lodzkie voivodship), in the Lodz Special Economic ...